The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA, until 1997 Electronic Industries Association) is a trade organization for electronics manufacturers in the United States. EIA is accredited by ANSI to help develop standards on electronic components, consumer electronics, electronic information, telecommunications, and Internet security. An industry trade group is generally a public relations organization funded, founded and formed by corporations that operate in a specific industry. ... The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit standards organization that produces industrial standards in the United States. ... Standards organizations are bodies, organizations and institutions that produce, and in some cases measure, standards. ... Electronics is the study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. ... Consumer electronics is electronic equipment intended for use by everyday people. ... Telecommunication is the extension of communication over a distance. ...

Well known EIA standards include RS-170 for video signal and RS-232, EIA-422, RS-449, EIA-485 for serial data communications, and the EIA-708 standard for ATSC closed captioning. NTSC is the analog television system in use in Korea, Japan, United States, Canada and certain other places, mostly in the Americas (see map). ... RS-232 (also referred to as EIA RS-232C or V.24) is a standard for serial binary data interchange between a DTE (Data terminal equipment) and a DCE (Data communication equipment). ... EIA-422 (formerly RS-422) is a serial data communication protocol which specifies 4 wire, full-duplex, differential line, multi-drop communications. ... RS-449 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... EIA-485 (formerly RS-485 or RS485) is an OSI Model physical layer electrical specification of a two-wire, half-duplex, multipoint serial connection. ... EIA-708 is the standard for closed captioning for ATSC digital television streams in the United States and Canada. ... The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) is the group that helped to develop the new digital television standard for the United States, also adopted by Canada, Mexico, and South Korea and being considered by other countries. ...

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